Astrology in September 2018 - Mars (Re)Enters Aquarius

by Robert Wilkinson

In just a few hours, Mars will re-enter Aquarius, traversing the border between that sign and Capricorn for the third time this year. This completes an important set of lessons, while also initiating a series of vibrational “pulses” with major implications for what shows up in 2020!

You’ll recall Mars first left Cap and entered Aquarius at the New Moon on May 15/16. It then went stationary retrograde at 10 Aquarius in late June, beginning a process of us withdrawing from old projections and things we no longer had an attachment to. It retrograded back over 1 Aquarius and re-entered Capricorn on August 12/13, right after the Solar Eclipse. (Astrologers may find interesting correlations in these transitions happening during Lunations.)

Then Mars went stationary direct at 29 Capricorn a few weeks ago, and has now resumed its forward motion. It will speed up from here for many months, so use the time well! Mars will still be in its shadow zone until October 10, so we’re all pretty familiar with what Mars has brought us in this sector of our charts!

Mars has been putting pressure on any planets we have in late Aries, late Cancer, late Libra, and late Capricorn, and marks a huge turning point and emphasis shift for those born around January 17-23, April 17-22, July 20-26, and October 20-26. Also remember those birthdays have been in the midst of life revolutions this past year thanks to Uranus continuing to conjunct, square, or oppose their Suns! Now that Mars is again in early Aquarius, it's in an exact square with Uranus, so get ready to demonstrate your uniqueness, but don't let nervous energy blow your circuits!

So from here, Mars again activates the Aquarius sector of our charts, this time with increasing speed so it should feel much different now than it has since May. Take a final look back at the skills you’ve developed since early May, and see how you are now able to make a more significant contribution to your world. Some things have been lost, creating space for new things to develop.

We now are in a time for those new things to move forward. By mid-October many things will be clearer than they were even a few weeks ago. We also now leave behind a period with a huge number of planets in Earth signs, with Mars boosting the Air quality for many weeks to come.

As it is the dispositor of Jupiter, we should see less pragmatism and more idealism in all things related to Jupiter. Of course, it’s still ruled by Saturn, requiring us to stay grounded in our slow steady path to a greater spiritual maturity in all worldly things.

What we’ve learned during this time will prove valuable when Saturn dances at the end of Capricorn and beginning of Aquarius between February and July 2020, and will serve our ability to respond effectively to what opens beginning November 2020 as Jupiter and Saturn approach their conjunction at 1 Aquarius in December of that year. That launches a new 20 year period, and Mars just gave us a practicum of how we need to respond.